Mike Sonksen

Mike Sonksen, also known as Mike the PoeT, is the author of I Am Alive in Los Angeles! (iUniverse, 2006), as well as Letters to My City (Writ Large Press, 2019), a book of poems and essays about Los Angeles. He has published more than 500 essays and poems in publications including Academy of American Poets, KCET, Poets & Writers, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. In the past two decades, he has delivered more than 1,500 poetry readings in bookstores, museums, college campuses, and school. In 2013, the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center honored Sonksen for "distinguished service to the Los Angeles Poetry community." Sonksen teaches at Woodbury University.